CQWW WPX Contest, CW - 2023
Call: EI7M
Operator(s): M0SDV
Station: EI7M
Class: SOAB HP
Class Overlay: Youth
QTH: IO51VW
Operating Time (hrs): 36
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 7
80: 243
40: 750
20: 1026
15: 1324
10: 267
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Total: 3617 Prefixes = 1208 Total Score = 9,846,408
Club: Bavarian Contest Club
Comments:
This weekend I was fortunate enough to have operated at EI7M in Ireland. I have
never been to this station, or even operated a contest from EI until now and I
was pleasantly surprised at the results.
I flew, Birmingham to Cork on Thursday before the contest. Flying Ryanair is
always interesting, in that after standing in a “holding area” for an hour
after the departure time the plane had only just arrived. Eventually I landed in
Cork where Dave EI9FBB was able to pick me up and host me at his place
overnight. The next morning I was off to EI7M.
When I arrived I had a brief introduction to the station and I was away.
Pre-contest I made around 350 QSO’s as EI/M0SDV on HF, but to my surprise
there was a great 6m opening where I made about 100 QSO’s around Europe. I
even dabbled with a bit of FT8 and worked USA, which is a 6m first for me.
Into the contest, Pile ups were great however rate not all that high. There was
QSB present all weekend which somewhat hampered any ability to work quickly as
by the time I was receiving 5NN, a lot of station dropped into the noise for the
serial. Nevertheless, it was great fun to be able to run a reasonable rate. I
have commented to a number of people how well JA were coming through. 15m Opened
up for most of the day and I was able to run loads of JA’s which is something
I’ve never done in this part of the world before.
W’s were in an out throughout the contest.
I have to say I was disappointed with the performance of 10m throughout. Signals
were not loud nor was there any rate. Obviously 15m was where the action was. I
have theorized that due to the decent conditions all round, people were picking
their band and staying, opposed to moving around.
All in, a great contest experience. My score, is higher than the current EI SO
record for this contest, However I suspect that after adjudication I will have
fallen short of the required amount for that record. I have however set an new
record for the “Youth” category.
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